Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Angelina Grimke
My name is Angelina Grimke. Some people call me “Nina.” I am an abolitionist and believe in anti-slavery. I was born on February 20th, in Charlestown South Carolina. My parents belonged to the Episcopalian Church and as did I. When I was thirteen, for my confirmation, I was supposed to recite the required pledge. I didn’t agree with the pledge therefore I would not follow through on my confirmation, so I converted to Presbyterian faith. .As a little girl I’ve been witnessed to slavery and I’ve seen the suffering the go through, so I am determined to speak out. I first wrote an anti-slavery letter to William Lloyd Garrison that was published in his Liberator newspaper. I also published a pamphlet titled “An appeal to the Christian women of the south.” In this she called for Christian women to come and speak about the anti-slavery cause. I also performed many religious services to my family slaves. I believe that slavery is a violated of Christian law and human rights. After much confusion and controversy I finally became a Quaker and moved to Philadelphia. I joined many societies to promote anti-slavery such as: American Anti-slavery Society and Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Original Post because I couldn't figure out how to post it on the wall.
Hello all. I am Margaret Fuller. I was born in Cambrigeport, Massachusetts, where from there I was educated by my father, Timothy Fuller, who taught me Italian and German at a very young age. I began my career as a teacher at Bronson Alcott’s Temple School and the Green Street School in Providence, Rhode Island. I support reform therefore my vote would go to the Whig’s if I was eligible to vote! I am extremely supportive of women’s rights and have been named a leading figure of the movement. I stopped teaching and followed my heart, which led me to giving formal conversations designed to encourage women in self-expression and independent thinking in Elizabeth Peabody’s parlor. I say “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it”. My conversations addressed education, ethics, culture, ignorance, vanity, and women. Over 200 women attended. I wrote a few American Renaissance literatures, which included my most prominent piece, Women in the Nineteenth Century. Written in 1845, this story was about the cruelties of the female race through history and it supported equality for women. “The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.” I travelled to Europe as a foreign correspondent for The Tribune and took charge of one of the hospitals in Italy during the Revolution. On my way back home on July 19, 1850 my husband, Marchese Giovanni Angelo d’Ossoli, my son, Angelo, and I drowned in a ship wreck. My life accomplishments include: the first woman journalist on Horace Greeley’s New York Daily Tribune, the first editor of The Dial, and the first woman to enter Harvard Library to research.
Post a Comment